Government Secondary School, Afikpo
Government Secondary School, Afikpo (GSSA) is a boys' secondary school located in Afikpo, a town in Ebonyi State in the former Eastern Region of Nigeria, the part of Nigeria that attempted to secede as the independent state of Biafra in the late 1960s. The Nigerian Civil War was Nigeria's ultimately successful attempt to reintegrate Biafra forcibly into the larger Nigerian polity. GSSA was one of the best of the antebellum “leadership academies” of Nigeria until the war and its aftermath.
| Government Secondary School Afikpo | |
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| Address | |
off Amasiri - Afikpo Road , Nigeria | |
| Information | |
| Type | Secondary School |
| Motto | Fear God, Honour the King |
| Established | 1952 |
| Founder | Charles W. Low |
| Principal | Ogbonnia Nwachi |
| Gender | Boys |
| Age | 11 to 18 |
| Enrolment | about 1000 |
| Houses | 9 |
| Colour(s) | Purple |
| Publication | Purple Times |
| Pupils | Mgbomians |
| Website | http://www.gssaaa.org |
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